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What was the rationale for deliberately injecting mentally ill patients with malaria?

a. The patients' immoral behaviors had to be punished with illness.
b. The high fever would divert patients' attention from the symptoms of mental disorders.
c. It was a desperate attempt to shock the afflicted individual's system back to normality.
d. The malaria would bring about a high fever that in some cases had been associated with a reduction in symptoms.

Question 2

An emphasis on masturbation as a cause of mental disorder, or the deliberate injection of mentally ill patients with malaria, can be viewed as examples of

a. excessive emphasis on biological explanations.
b. a willingness to accept ideas that are not backed by scientific proof.
c. how little psychiatry has changed in the past 100 years.
d. the contempt with which most medical professionals viewed their patients.